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I solved my problem (and yours, too, I hope!) the problem was that I was running out of space on the recovery partition. I solved it by going to the Disk Management function in Computer Management, assigning a drive letter to the recovery partition, then deleting all the folders that were for languages other than English. The Win 8.1 install then worked. Whew! After Win 8.1 installed, I removed the drive letter from the recovery partition since it's not needed for anything else.

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Ci7 187

Make sure you only have one drive installed , that might be confusing things!

I had to temporarily take a SD card out of my tablet first for instance ...

this is a desktop...

:woot:

I solved my problem (and yours, too, I hope!) the problem was that I was running out of space on the recovery partition. I solved it by going to the Disk Management function in Computer Management, assigning a drive letter to the recovery partition, then deleting all the folders that were for languages other than English. The Win 8.1 install then worked. Whew! After Win 8.1 installed, I removed the drive letter from the recovery partition since it's not needed for anything else.

Good luck to you.

perhaps worth a shoot

edit:

except that i don't have recovery partition

i have System Reserved (~ 100MB partition)

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xendrome 2,999

Technically this is the same release that will be "official". The likely issue here is people have "messed" with their installs and installed language packs, 3rd party modifications, etc. And the setup is then unable to detect the proper version to allow an upgrade.

I have successfully upgraded 3 systems so far without any issues. Mine were Windows 8 Pro.

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Ci7 187

Technically this is the same release that will be "official". The likely issue here is people have "messed" with their installs and installed language packs, 3rd party modifications, etc. And the setup is then unable to detect the proper version to allow an upgrade.

I have successfully upgraded 3 systems so far without any issues. Mine were Windows 8 Pro.

coming to think about it

8.1 preview could messed up something when it failed in the final phase and rolled back about 2 months ago

i have successfully installed it in another PC

look like my only option is to start clean -> format when i have some free time

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rkitover 3

I got it to install using the hints in this thread and some extra work.

I'll go through this step by step and hopefully it will help someone.

1. press win+r and type diskmgmt.msc

2. click on your C: drive

3. below the list of drives there will be a partition map, the first partition will be Data or some such, listed at 100MB, right click on it and go to change drive letters and paths -> add -> now choose Y: for the drive letter

4. open an admin cmd prompt, in win8 you can press win+x and choose command prompt (admin), in win7 you have to create a shortcut for cmd.exe, then go to compatibility in the shortcut properties, and choose run as admin

5. type: Y: <enter> in the cmd window

6. run these commands:

takeown /f . /r /d yicacls . /grant administrators:F /t

attrib -h -s -r bootmgr

NOTE: for the icacls command you can use your username instead of administrators, to find out your username type 'whoami'

7. now open explorer (win+e) go to the Y: drive under compuer, go into the Boot folder, and delete all languages other than en-US. Languages are in the form xx-XX. Make sure to shift+delete and not just delete so they don't go to the recycle bin. Empty the recycle bin afterwards just in case.

8. now go back to the admin command prompt, and type this command:

chkdsk Y: /F /X /sdcleanup /L:5000

this truncates the NTFS log to 5MB, it can be very very big, not leaving enough space for the install

at the end of the output it should tell you that you have at least 50MB of free space on the partition

9. proceed with the windows 8.1 installation

10. once booted into 8.1 and set up, you can go back into diskmgmt.msc and remove the drive letter for the boot partition

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Whilst updating my main machine (Linux, Snow Leopard and Windows 7) to Windows 7 SP1 I had a problem installing the service pack. It would error out after a short time with an error which referred to being unable to mount the system volume. After trying Windows Update and the standalone installer multiple times I realised that the problem was with my drive configuration. I unplugged my OSX and Linux hard drives and it installed without a hitch. I then reinserted those two drives and all was working as intended.

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prisaz 0

I got it to install using the hints in this thread and some extra work.

I'll go through this step by step and hopefully it will help someone.

1. press win+r and type diskmgmt.msc

2. click on your C: drive

3. below the list of drives there will be a partition map, the first partition will be Data or some such, listed at 100MB, right click on it and go to change drive letters and paths -> add -> now choose Y: for the drive letter

4. open an admin cmd prompt, in win8 you can press win+x and choose command prompt (admin), in win7 you have to create a shortcut for cmd.exe, then go to compatibility in the shortcut properties, and choose run as admin

5. type: Y: <enter> in the cmd window

6. run these commands:

takeown /f . /r /d y

icacls . /grant administrators:F /t

attrib -h -s -r bootmgr

NOTE: for the icacls command you can use your username instead of administrators, to find out your username type 'whoami'

7. now open explorer (win+e) go to the Y: drive under compuer, go into the Boot folder, and delete all languages other than en-US. Languages are in the form xx-XX. Make sure to shift+delete and not just delete so they don't go to the recycle bin. Empty the recycle bin afterwards just in case.

8. now go back to the admin command prompt, and type this command:

chkdsk Y: /F /X /sdcleanup /L:5000

this truncates the NTFS log to 5MB, it can be very very big, not leaving enough space for the install

at the end of the output it should tell you that you have at least 50MB of free space on the partition

9. proceed with the windows 8.1 installation

10. once booted into 8.1 and set up, you can go back into diskmgmt.msc and remove the drive letter for the boot partition

Good luck!

Sorry for such a quote of a one hit wonderful post. HUGE KUDOS to rkitover !!

Some additional hits.

#1. If you have you Windows 8 to auto start in a standard user account. Bad idea. Set it to require a login, so the system will use it's login to complete the update.

#2. If you have media center and you go to the control pan and turn off your media options. including Media Center, it will still be there. You have the feature and is licensed to your machine, so you can turn it back on. Good idea turn it off before the upgrade.

#3 If you are running Ceton Corp InfiniTV software, un install it. You would be best to reinstall it after you are sure all is working properly.

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sabity 0

I tried the solution below, but I cant see in the Y drive the boot folder (actually only a system file and the bootmgr file). I have administrative account enabled. Ticking the hidden files didn't reveal it either. Any suggestions how to erase the languages?